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The Other Platonist Beginning

Emile Alexandrov

This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics.This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist...

Sadra and Hegel on Metaphysical Essentialism

Kamal Abdul Karim Shlbei

This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel’s own. The author argues that while...

The Ecological Vision of J.M.G. Le Clézio

Bronwen Martin

This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, guided by Gilles Deleuze’s concept of metamorphosis, «becoming-animal». In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Clézio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter,...

Figures of Exile

Francis Lough

«Figures of Exile is an excellent volume of essays carefully curated by Daniela Omlor and Eduardo Tasis that pays a long overdue homage to the late Nigel Dennis, one of the most important Hispanists of his generation. It does so brilliantly by bringing together a group...

Hegel’s Political Philosophy

Evangelia Sembou

Hegel’s Political Philosophy

Evangelia Sembou

Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French

Jean Khalfa

«From Freud and psychoanalysis to Derrida and philosophy, the question of mourning has been central to a whole strain of modern thought, especially in France. This fascinating and illuminating collection of essays explores the question in a wide range of intellectual...

The Writing of Aletheia

Martin Travers

Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words – new words, both descriptive and analytical – for his radical form of philosophy. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time, where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological...

Writing Switzerland

Collectif

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland’s finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, elegant, dancing nimbly from history andculture to politics and philosophy. Von Matt weaves engaging literary analyses...

Carl Wilhelm Froelich’s «On Man and his Circumstances»

Edward T. Larkin

This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm Frölich’s important essay of 1792, which Georg Foster praised as «one of the rarest creations of our time, the work of a young, right-thinking and...